Knowing Dickens / Rosemarie Bodenheimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bodenheimer, Rosemarie, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subjectivity in literature.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Knowledge and learning.

Dickens, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this compelling and accessible book, Rosemarie Bodenheimer explores the thought world of the Victorian novelist who was most deeply intrigued by nineteenth-century ideas about the unconscious mind. Dickens found many ways to dramatize in his characters both unconscious processes and acts of self-projection-notions that are sometimes applied to him as if he were an unwitting patient. Bodenheimer explains how the novelist used such techniques to negotiate the ground between knowing and telling, revealing and concealing. She asks how well Dickens knew himself-the extent to which he understood his own nature and the ways he projected himself in his fictions-and how well we can know him. Knowing Dickens is the first book to systematically explore Dickens's abundant correspondence in relation to his published writings. Gathering evidence from letters, journalistic essays, stories, and novels that bear on a major issue or pattern of response in Dickens's life and work, Bodenheimer cuts across familiar storylines in Dickens biography and criticism in chapters that take up topics including self-defensive language, models of memory, relations of identification and rivalry among men, houses and household management, and walking and writing.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Frequently Cited Works

1. What Dickens Knew

2. Language on the Loose

3. Memory

4. Another Man

5. Manager of the House

6. Streets

Afterword

Bibliographical Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801467011

0801467012

9780801476235

0801476232

9780801460104

0801460107

OCLC:

726824266